With that in mind, let us introduce you to a man named Patrick Jenkins who is curiously curious about what his great-grandmother first spotted inside a San Francisco art gallery 115 years ago.
"She spotted a little painting on the wall, and she ended up buying it," he says.
The nail holes in the painting itself tell an even more curious tale about what she eventually ended up doing with it.
"She put it on her chicken coop walls, because that's where she spent most of her time," he says. "Eventually it just got lost on the walls of the chicken coop."
And there it remained, for years, until Jenkins' family found it covered in feathers and all other sorts of undesirable muck.
A few years ago, Jenkin's father handed it to him, and that's when the really curious story began, he says.
"The minute I got the painting I started taking pictures of it. One thousand pictures later and I'm still not finished," he says.
In one part of the painting that is, on its surface, a picture of a bowl of fruit, a wine glass, and a wine bottle, he swears he sees angels. In another part, he sees the face of Santa Claus.
"Over there I see a mother holding her baby," he says.
"A lot of people would come to me and say, 'Boy, that must be some good stuff you're taking,'" he says. "I would say, well, whatever it is I'm taking, my camera is taking (as well),'" he said.
Oh, and by the way, he says he believes the painting is an original Van Gogh.
The seller in San Francisco, he says, told his grandmother it was the work of a Dutch painter named "Van Gogg." It's an issue that's hardly settled however.
"Maybe that's the whole point of the chicken coop," he says. "You should look further into the things that are in front of you instead of always thinking there is something better behind it."
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